4.10.0 also adds support for dpkg-style tilde-versions where eg 1.0~pre1 is considered older than 1.0, which makes handling upstream pre-release versions much easier. However this can not be utilized in Fedora before the entire package management stack, including the buildsystem, has been updated to support it.

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Release note draft document can be found in http://rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.10.0

The RPM development team would like to update Fedora RPM to a pre-release version of 4.10 as early as possible to leverage the wider testing that Fedora rawhide gets. A stable upstream version of the new RPM is expected to be released well in time before Fedora 18 alpha. This is more of a "time-based code outlet" release than one with many new fancy features.

4.10.0 also adds support for dpkg-style tilde-versions where eg 1.0~pre1 is considered older than 1.0, which makes handling upstream pre-release versions much easier. However this can not be utilized in Fedora before the entire package management stack, including the buildsystem, has been updated to support it.

Rpm has it's own test-suite which gets executed during the package build. Beyond that, rpm gets quite thoroughly tested in the course of "everyday activities" such as system installation, upgrades and package building.

Revert to rpm 4.9.x. As there are no database- or other package-level incompatibilities introduced in this version, reverting would be a simple matter of bumping epoch and rebuilding the packages linking to librpm.

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